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These 3 energy storage technologies can help solve the challenge of moving to 100% renewable electricity

Renewable Energy World

As a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, I work with the federal government and private industry to develop renewable energy storage technologies. Here are three emerging technologies that could help make this happen. This approach allows concentrated solar power to work around the clock. Longer charges.

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How To Leverage $10 Billion To Reduce Carbon Emissions

R-Squared Energy

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. Policies and technologies that reduce that consumption will lower the amount of carbon dioxide emitted. There are two drivers behind coal’s decline: Natural gas and renewables.

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Hydrogen as part of Canada’s energy transition

Clean Energy Canada

As Canada navigates the clean energy transition, cleaner technologies and solutions are attracting attention. But its full potential for reducing emissions depends on how it is produced, which in turn is influenced by costs and technologies. This means its potential role has similarities with that of electricity.

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Xcel Targets $1.4B in Wind and Solar Investments, Outlines Broader Carbon-Reduction Goals

GreenTechMedia

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Xcel Energy is asking Minnesota regulators to approve $1.4

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UK’s Power Sector in Negative Emissions by 2033, Grid Operator Says

GreenTechMedia

stays on track, there will be 11 million electric vehicles on U.K. Residential gas boilers will be a thing of the past, with 8 million heat pumps installed to replace them. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. Adding more wind, solar and electric vehicles seems achievable, if challenging.

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer.

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Treasury Department Announces Second Round of Section 48C Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing Facilities

38 North Solutions

property designed to produce energy conservation technologies; or g. other advanced energy property designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as may be determined by the U.S. any other industrial technology designed to reduce GHG emissions, as determined by the U.S. grid modernization equipment or components; d.

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